The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted down a resolution approving of the nuclear deal with Iran by a vote of 269-162. Twenty-five Democrats were among those disapproving the deal. A second resolution that would prevent President Barack Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran was subsequently passed. The Hill reported more: While the failure of...

Many of the senators who support the nuclear deal with Iran, and who voted Thursday to filibuster and prevent an up-or-down vote, have made strong cases against the deal they advocate for, Mitchell Bard, executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, observed in The Times of Israel Thursday. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said on...

The New York Times published a chart Thursday identifying the religion of Democrats who opposed the nuclear deal with Iran, then partially deleted it without acknowledgment after it was deemed offensive. The lawmakers against the Iran nuclear deal http://t.co/WsvuvPoczO pic.twitter.com/7TJaUzqW0Z — The New York Times (@nytimes) September 10, 2015 “It’s a grotesque insult...

A Senate vote to end debate on the nuclear deal with Iran fell short of its required margin today, preventing a full vote to disapprove the deal itself. A bipartisan group of 58 senators voted to invoke cloture on debating the resolution, two short of the 60 votes required to pass. The remaining...

Filibustering a vote on the Iran deal would be “unfair and unwise” and “contrary to the spirit of the Constitution,” former Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in an op-ed (Google link) today in The Wall Street Journal. Lieberman called on Senate Democrats and the White House not to block a vote on the deal, which...

The White House’s failure to provide Congress with all of the side deals connected to the nuclear agreement with Iran means that the 60-day countdown clock for a vote hasn’t started, Northwestern University law professor Eugene Kontorovich wrote today in an analysis in The Washington Post The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015,...